Sad news Gordan Cowans

[soulman101]

Tweeted by dawn Astle, Gordan has been diagnosed with early onset dementia .
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...s-disease.html

[mickd1961]

Jesus 😩

[westcountryvillain]

Awful news but he's facing it like the proper gent he always has been, it's the cruellest of illnesses and my Mother-In-Law is now confined to I don't know how many years in a care home bleeding her savings dry. I wouldn't want that for myself and I know she wouldn't either.

[kettering_baggie]

Very sad, I wish him well, makes our ‘bitter’ rivalry rather insignificant.

[mickd1961]

Awful news but he's facing it like the proper gent he always has been, it's the cruellest of illnesses and my Mother-In-Law is now confined to I don't know how many years in a care home bleeding her savings dry. I wouldn't want that for myself and I know she wouldn't either.

My father in law has been in a care home with Alzheimer’s for over three years now at a cost of £36k a year which is actually as cheap as it gets.

He’s had it for 13 years and he’s now over 90 and still as fit as a fiddle physically and could go on for years yet.

He pays £36k a year whilst others in the same home pay nothing having p I s s e d it up the wall all their lives😤😤

Hideously unfair system.

[stripes39]

Awful news but he's facing it like the proper gent he always has been, it's the cruellest of illnesses and my Mother-In-Law is now confined to I don't know how many years in a care home bleeding her savings dry. I wouldn't want that for myself and I know she wouldn't either.

My partners mother died from it last year. It felt a bit of a release in all honesty. They put the house in trust before the diagnosis just at the real early stages when they suspected something wasn't right so avoided a great deal of the costs. They kept her at home as long as they could but that was so stressful in the end as she kept going walkabout so she had to go in to care. She ended up not knowing or recognising her own son and daughter. Really sad and horrible to watch. GC is only 61 I think. No age at all.